LAWRENCE O`DONNELL, MSNBC HOST: As the unintended consequences of President Bush`s war in Iraq continue to mount, the seemingly unintended consequences -- today, President Obama answered the question about what his objective is in dealing with the latest unintended consequence of President Bush`s war in Iraq.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Our reach is long and justice will be served.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stepped up rhetoric against ISIS.

JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We will follow them to the gates of hell.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are we trying to contain this threat or defeat it?

OBAMA: Our objective is clear, to degrade and destroy ISIL.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The rhetoric is not matching the strategy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is this president, though, at this time, being too cautious?

JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: The United States will hold them accountable.

OBAMA: We will not be intimidated.

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O`DONNELL: President Obama is in Wales tonight on the eve of the NATO summit there. He will meet tomorrow with the British Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss forming an international coalition to combat the Islamic State.

At a press conference in Estonia this morning, President Obama was asked about the objective.

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OBAMA: Our objective is clear, and that is to degrade and destroy ISIL, so that it`s no longer a threat -- not just to Iraq but also the region and to the United States.

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O`DONNELL: President Obama also spoke for the first time about the death of American journalist Steven Sotloff.

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OBAMA: Whatever these murders think they`ll achieve by killing innocent Americans like Steven, they have already failed. We will not be intimidated. Their horrific acts only unite us as a country and stiffen our resolve to take the fight against these terrorists, and those who make the mistake of harming Americans will learn that we will not forget and that our reach is long and that justice will be served.

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O`DONNELL: A spokesman for the family of Steven Sotloff addressed the media today.

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BARAK BARFI, SOTLOFF FAMILY SPOKESMAN: He merely wanted to give voice to those who had none. From a Libyan doctor in Misrata, who struggled to provide psychological services to children ravaged by war, to the Syrian plumber who risked his life by crossing regime lines to purchase medicines, their story was Steve`s story. He ultimately sacrificed his life to bring their story to the world. Steve was no hero. Like all of us, he was a mere man who tried to find good concealed in a world of darkness.

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O`DONNELL: Vice President Joe Biden said this this morning.

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BIDEN: If they think the American people will be intimidated, they don`t know us very well. When people harm Americans, we don`t retreat. We don`t forget. We take care of those who are grieving. And when that`s finished, they should know, we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice, because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.

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O`DONNELL: Joining me now is former Ambassador William Taylor. He served in the Baghdad embassy in 2004 and is the vice president at the Institute for Peace. And William McCants, a fellow at the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy, and a former State Department adviser on counterterrorism.

Ambassador Taylor, we seem to be in the endless flow of unintended consequences of the war in Iraq, and this flow of consequences seems endless. What makes us think that we have the power to end these unintended consequences here and now?

AMB. WILLIAM TAYLOR, SERVED IN U.S. EMBASSY IN IRAQ: Well, we have a challenge that we have to face, and it sounds like this administration is beginning to face up to that challenge and take some steps in order to deal with it. It is -- it is a challenge that has threatened Americans, that has killed Americans. As the president and vice president both said, this is something that we deal with, that we respond to. We have forces in Iraq, again, that can begin to deal with this problem.

O`DONNELL: William McCants, should we really be using the death of two American journalists who went over there into that area knowing exactly what the risks are, we should be using the death of those two individuals as some justification for an escalation of some form of war?

WILLIAM MCCANTS, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: No, we shouldn`t. We should be using the risk of the jihadists in the Islamic State to our allies in Europe and to our allies in the region. We can`t allow the death of two journalists, however horrific they may have been, to dictate our response. And I think that`s why the president is taking a go-it-slow approach in trying to figure out the right way forward. It`s one thing to take the fight to ISIS in Iraq. It`s quite another to go into Syria.

O`DONNELL: Let`s listen to what Secretary of State Kerry said today.

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KERRY: The real face of Islam is not what we saw yesterday. When the world bore witness again to the unfathomable brutality of ISIL terrorist murderers, we have taken the fight to this kind of savagery and evil before, and believe me, we will take it again. Those who have murdered James Foley and Steven Sotloff in Syria need to know that the United States will hold them accountable, too, no matter how long it takes.

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O`DONNELL: Ambassador Taylor, Secretary Kerry just said we`ve taken the fight to this type of savagery and evil before. We will take this fight again. When have we won this fight?

TAYLOR: Well, we fought this fight to a standstill, where there was a chance for the Iraqis to put together a government. We then drew down our forces farther than we probably should have. We should have left some there.

But that was -- that was close to a success and giving the Iraqis the ability to put together a government. They then did not do that.

O`DONNELL: How surprising.

William McCants, have we won one of these fights that we claim that we`re now so capable of fighting and crushing the Islamic State?

MCCANTS: There`s been mixed results over the past 10 years. Look, when one of these groups takes over territory, they don`t last very long. Their ideology ends up being repugnant to the population that they control. They end up making a lot of enemies among the local tribes.

We have to play this one smart. If we go in too strong, we`re only going to rally people to their side. We have to take it slow and we have to find the right partners on the ground to deal with the Islamic state.

Not just in Iraq but in Syria, because if you don`t remove their home base in Syria, they`re just going to come right back into Iraq.

O`DONNELL: Well, we don`t have much of a record, Ambassador Taylor, of playing it smart in this region. And I don`t see where the confidence comes from tonight that we know how to do this, that we know how to take on something like the Islamic State and take this fight to them and, as the president has said, to degrade -- I understand the intention to try to degrade. But then he goes as far as to say destroy.

What will come in its place if, by some amazing luck, we actually were capable of destroying them?

TAYLOR: Well, what should come in its place is a representative government across Iraq, eventually across Syria, but that may be farther on.

But the Iraqis have the opportunity now to put together a government that can control that territory, that can include the Sunnis, the Shia, the Kurds, in a government that can really govern. That`s what should come after the defeat, the destruction of ISIL.

O`DONNELL: So, William McCants, our new plan for nation building in Iraq now is, all we have to do now for nation-building is to destroy and defeat and eliminate the Islamic State. Then, nation-building will carry on just fine?

MCCANTS: Well, the people on the ground get a vote too. I mean, we`ve reached this point because the Iraqi government did not want to allow the United States to leave troops in the country. We respected their wishes, and they were also politically not able to get their act together and make sure the Sunni voices were being heard. And that`s why we`re being faced with this insurgency.

The threat is so dire now. Perhaps the parliament will begin to come together and coalesce around finding the solution to bring the Sunnis into a government.

O`DONNELL: Ambassador Taylor, since every action we`ve taken in Iraq over the decades has led to a future down the road from that action that was worse than prior to the action we took. What makes us think that the next action we take there will somehow, for the first time ever, actually make it turn around in another direction and make it finally better?

MCCANTS: Well, we probably -- we can assume we have learned some things about what works and what doesn`t work.

You mentioned nation-building. Well, we didn`t do so well in nation-building because the Iraqis need to build their own nation. It`s not Americans or even the international community that`s going to build it.

It`s going to be the Iraqis. They have the opportunity to put together a government that includes all the voices that have been excluded in the past. So they may have learned something as well this time.

O`DONNELL: William McCants, how about the option -- the American option of doing nothing? The one option that America has never chosen whenever it`s in the crossroads in Iraq?

MCCANTS: I think that`s what we`ve done so far, and we probably could have continued to do nothing had the Islamic State not taken over so much territory in Iraq. They are now on the borders with Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Those are two of our principal allies in the region. They`ve gathered hundreds of thousands of foreign fighters that can go back to Europe and wreak havoc in the homes of our allies.

The Obama administration is being pressed to act now.

O`DONNELL: Ambassador Taylor, who should we look to for guidance now on what to do there? And who -- by that, I mean is there someone who has been right about this situation there at every crossroads in just say the last 10 years or so? Or has everyone who has been involved in the decision making and opining about it at some point been wrong about something?

TAYLOR: Many people have been wrong about Iraq on all sides. However, the Kurds have been pretty steadfast. The Kurds have put together a government, a society, a military force that`s been able to accomplish a lot of what they`re trying to do and develop an organization that can be good for their people, the Kurdish people. So there are some people there.

There are people in the Iraqi government who are able to pull things together, and they are making that attempt. But in general, the answer to your question is, it has to be the Iraqis.

O`DONNELL: Let`s listen to what one observer, Phil Robertson of "Duck Dynasty", has to say about what we should be doing now.

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PHIL ROBERTSON, DUCK DYNASTY: You either have to convert them, which I think is -- would be next to impossible. I`m not giving up on them, but either convert them or kill them. One or the other.

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O`DONNELL: Now, Ambassador Taylor, this comment has gotten a lot of ridicule today, but it actually is not that different from what Joe Biden has had to say or what many senators have had to say. Kill the Islamic State, wipe them out, because obviously converting them is a very unlikely proposition.

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TAYLOR: We have no business trying to convert anyone. We do have business trying to defend the United States, its people, and our allies in the region. That may take killing some of the ISIS and indeed destroying the ISIS organization.

O`DONNELL: William McCants, forgive me for not seeing that much difference between what Phil Robertson of "Duck Dynasty" said and what is being said on the Senate floor and what is being said in Washington every day. They don`t say it as crudely, but certainly, you know, if the Islamic State wants to surrender, which would be the conversion element of what Phil Robertson said, that would be OK.

But if they don`t, what everyone in Washington I`m hearing is saying is just kill them all.

MCCANTS: Well, you can kill them but you need to have a long-term plan for what you hope to accomplish, both in Iraq and in Syria. And Syria is the really difficult part of this problem. Vice President Biden talked about going into the gates of hell, Syria is the hell and we have to figure out who we`re going to work on -- work with on the ground and what it is we are moving towards. We can`t just go after the Islamic State without a long-range man for the future of Syria, because it`s going to shape the nature of what we do in that country and who we support in the opposition.

O`DONNELL: Well, let`s see if it`s as good as our long-range plans for any other country we`ve made long-range plans for in that region.

Ambassador William Taylor and William McCants -- thank you both very much for joining me tonight.

TAYLOR: Thank you.

O`DONNELL: Coming up, why the Kansas Senate race just became the race to watch this year.

And in "The Rewrite", Elizabeth Warren has a little something to say about why Eric Cantor quit Congress early to go make some money.

And, good news tonight. We have some really good news, police news. A couple of police officers you`re going to meet who are just real heroes.

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O`DONNELL: NBC News has learned that tomorrow the Justice Department will announce a civil rights investigation of the entire Ferguson, Missouri Police Department. The FBI and the Justice Department Civil Rights Division have been investigating the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson last month. The new investigation will cover the last several years of operations in the Ferguson Police Department. The Justice Department will also investigate the St. Louis County Police Department.

Up next, so imagine you`re running for Senate. You`re a Republican running for Senate and your Democratic opponent drops out of the race.

You`re happy, you`re thrilled, right? Game over.

Wrong. That story is next.

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O`DONNELL: In a dramatic development tonight in a key Senate race that could determine the control of the United States Senate, the Democratic candidate in Kansas has dropped out of the race to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Pat Roberts.

Senator Roberts immediately accused the Democratic candidate, Chad Taylor, of making a deal with an independent candidate in the race, businessman Greg Orman. Recent polling indicates that Orman has a better chance than Taylor did of beating Roberts, with one poll showing Orman ahead of Roberts by 10 points.

Tonight, the Roberts` campaign issued this statement, "Chad Taylor`s withdrawal from the U.S. Senate race reveals a corrupt bargain between Greg Orman and national Democrats, including Senator Harry Reid, that disenfranchised Kansas Democrats. It makes clear what has been obvious from the start, Orman is the choice of liberal Democrats and he can no longer hide behind an independent smokescreen."

Joining me now is executive editor for MSNBC.com and MSNBC political analyst, Richard Wolffe.

Richard, big doings in Kansas tonight. This is a gigantic moment here for the Democrats in terms of trying to knock off Republicans in the Senate. If they can possibly take Kansas out of the Republican column, it could change the outcome for control of the Senate.

RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes, no question this is big news, Lawrence. You know, who would have thought this would be the matter with Kansas? Pat Roberts --

O`DONNELL: Yes.

WOLFFE: Pat Roberts looking at this big deficit, and railing look, that statement is -- look, he`s trying to punch a number of buttons in that statement. OK, it`s one thing to say my opponent is an independent, but he`s also not just an independent, he`s a liberal Democrat. By the way, no mentioned of Barack Obama, but Harry Reid is the button he`s trying to push in that statement.

Yes, he`s troubled. If you look at how the polling is going, his Democratic opponent actually was doing pretty well. So, there are good reasons to be worried when the opposition congeals around him.

O`DONNELL: Yes, what was pretty clear was, with all of those candidates in the race, the Democrat was not going to be able to pull this off. So that decision to drop out was probably not ultimately that difficult looking at polling.

Let`s listen to what Orman has to say, for example, he talked to Steve Kornacki about, would he -- if elected as an independent, would he vote Democratic majority leader or a Republican majority leader? Let`s listen to this.

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GREG ORMAN, KANSAS SENATE CANDIDATE: Ultimately, if elected, there`s a reasonable chance that neither party will have a majority in Washington. If that`s the case, what I`ve said is I`m going to caucus with which ever party is willing to actually go to Washington and start trying to solve problems as opposed to just pleasing the extremists in their own base.

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O`DONNELL: Richard Wolffe, that sounds like the right answer for Kansas.

WOLFFE: Right, such a liberal Democrat, compromising and finding a middle ground. That`s how the politics has shifted.

Look, he`s obviously taken the right approach for Kansas, but you have to understand that he`s riding this wave of really an anti-governor -- anti-Republican Governor Sam Brownback in Kansas, who has practically bankrupt the state with his extremely ill-judged tax cuts. And when you factor that in with a senator who was damaged on the right from his primary who has been there forever -- you know, there`s room here for frankly the let`s clean up Washington position, which is what every good independent stands for.

O`DONNELL: Yes. And Roberts is coming out of a difficult primary where he was portrayed as being out of touch, not a resident of the state anymore he`s been gone so long.

Let`s listen to what Orman said about Governor Brownback and about the Medicaid expansion.

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ORMAN: Well, you know, I think the message that Governor Brownback has sent to the working poor in Kansas is, if you have a health care crisis, your best solution is to quit your job. I think that`s a bad message to send. I think we have a real issue in Kansas with our critical access facilities that are now underfunded as a result of Governor Brownback`s decision. So, ultimately, I think he`s made a poor decision there.

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O`DONNELL: And, Richard, here he is running in a state where the incumbent, Pat Roberts` approval rating is 27 percent among registered voters, up 44 percent disapprove of him. That is an incumbent who is ripe for defeat and it may well be that a Democrat couldn`t do it in Kansas, but an independent.

WOLFFE: Yes, look, we often think that these states are so locked into one kind of politics, we forget that absolute power corrupts absolutely, and voters get sick of this kind of thing.

Then, you`re looking at states like Georgia. Again, when Democrats have just written it off for so long, but the establishment -- the political establishment starts to rot and get demographic changes, different kinds of candidates coming in, the circle does turn here. It may not be enough to breathe a new lease of life for President Obama, but if the Republicans don`t get back the Senate this time, it will be 10 years, five cycles that they will have been out of control in the Senate, and that`s got to be devastating to a party that still cannot get statewide office, never mind nationwide offers.

O`DONNELL: Well, if Orman wins, it could be (AUDIO GA) and his decision who he votes for. It could be up to him about who controls the Senate. That could be quite the drama.

Richard Wolffe, thank you very much for joining us tonight.

WOLFFE: Thanks, Lawrence.

O`DONNELL: Coming up, a new development in the George Washington bridge scandal involving another friend of Chris Christie`s.

And now that Eric Cantor has gone to work for Wall Street, he`s now a part of that same Wall Street that Elizabeth Warren wants to fix. And she has something to say about Eric Cantor tonight. That`s in "The Rewrite".

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O`DONNELL: In "The Spotlight" tonight, once again, Chris Christie and the George Washington Bridge. "The Bergen Record" is reporting today that Port Authority police officers were told to the to open up lanes on the Georgia Washington Bridge in the midst of last September`s massive traffic jam created by team Christie. "The Record" reports, quote, "On the second day of the George Washington Bridge lane closures last year, Port Authority police officers stationed at the traffic clogged intersection near the bridge picked up his radio that traffic was creating conditions, he told fellow officers over the radio, and the lanes needed to be reopened. `Shut up`, a Port Authority police supervisor at the bridge replied, instructing the officer not to discuss the apparently secret operation over an open radio channel."

That is just one account that 11 police officers stationed at the George Washington Bridge last September have shared with investigators about the lane closures, according to the record. The police officer who delivered the orders not to touch the traffic cones on the very first day of the lane closures was police lieutenant Thomas Chip Michaels. The first time we all heard the name Chip Michaels here at MSNBC was when Steve Kornacki this on February 16th.

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STEVE KORNACKI, MSNBC HOST, UP WITH STEVE KORNACKI: The name Jeff Michaels may not mean to you. But if given a small world in New Jersey politics, then you definitely do know that name. He`s a powerful New Jersey Republican whose family had long and close ties to Chris Christie. Someone who is power laid that connection into a wildly successful lobbying practice. And who has invested tens of thousands of dollars of his owned money in Christie`s political future. And it is his brother, Jeff Michaels` brother, port authority police lieutenant Thomas Chip Michaels, who was apparently on the scene when the Fort Lee lanes were shut down, who drove David Wildstein around as the traffic mounted.

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O`DONNELL: Today, the (INAUDIBLE) revealed that Chip Michaels did more than drive David Wildstein around the traffic. According to the record, after the 12-year veteran at the port authority was told to shut up, this happens. Chip Michaels and a police sergeant then visited the officer in person, at his post to tell him that his radio communication had been inappropriate. "The Bergen Record" obtained a memos of interviews that the New Jersey celebrity committee connected with witnesses, including chip Michaels.

One memo reports quote "Lieutenant Michaels recalled that in the week leading up to the Fort Lee lane closures, he received a telephone call from Widstein. Wildstein asked what would happen if Fort Lee`s lanes were reduced from three down to one. And Lt. Michaels explained it would create a F***ing disaster."

Joining me now is Brian Murphy, a former reporter for politicsnewjersey.com, which was owned by David Widstein. He is currently an MSNBC contributor and has been reporting on the George Washington scandal since the story broke. Also joining me, Alfred P. Doblin, the editorial page editor of "the Bergen Record."

Alfred Doblin, a big scoop to the Bergen Record so we`re now at very -- clearly now into the leak stage of the investigation. Your newspaper able to obtain some memos from inside the investigation and connecting the Michaels dots, the Chip Michaels dots that seemed to be laying out there, just kind of obviously as they turned out to be, connected very directly to not only the bridge closure but keeping the bridge closure, the lane closure going.

ALFRED P. DOBLIN, THE BERGEN RECORD: Well, I think, you know, this is I think very upsetting on so many levels. Because we were kind of used to the idea that politicians may put politics in front of public safety. But when we see that law enforcement has put, you know, politics in front of public safety, you know, it goes from being business as usual to risky business. And I think this is really upsetting that you have law enforcement people on the scene, seeing the situation getting increasingly out of control, being told to "shut up." I mean, that`s just -- that`s beyond unacceptable. And I think this is going to resonate very, very strongly with people all throughout New Jersey. This is very much appears to be a flagrant abuse of power.

O`DONNELL: Brian Murphy, you knew about the Michaels brothers long before any of the rest of us. Chris Christie grew up with these guys.

BRIAN MURPHY, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: That`s right. And the interesting thing in this scoop today is that we didn`t know the extent to which Jeff Michaels was playing -- or Chip Michaels was playing a role in actually sort of maintaining and keeping this quiet during the week that this goes on back last September. Steve and I figured out back in February that Chip was the guy who drove David Wildstein around. We didn`t know, thought, that Chip intervened and told this officer to keep quiet. We didn`t know that Chip called his brother Jeff during the week before the lane closures and mentioned, you know, that this might happen. Didn`t know -- says he didn`t know quite what to make of it, but told nevertheless, told his brother, Jeff, who is a big-time Republican lobbyist, good friend of the governor, that this was about to go down.

So, you know, Al`s right that it is disturbing and alarming that, you know, we know that the port authority police leadership, we know their union is extremely close and supportive of governor Christie. We don`t know the extent to which the officers and command structure of that police department were a part of this operation.

O`DONNELL: Quoting more from the memos and the -- that are in paper now, lieutenant Michaels said that he did not, at the time, think much of the call, when he was called by Wildstein about asking about closing down lanes and mentioned that he passed it along to his brother Jeff.

Alfred Doblin, this material that has been leaked is presumably just a small set of things that are now available inside the investigation, given how many people that they`ve spoken to. Can we expect a kind of a flow of leaks over the next several months?

DOBLIN: Well, you know, from the point of the record, I would say I would hope so. You know, I don`t know how the materials are going to trickle down. There`s a lot of things that people expect will happen soon. You know, I think people keep looking at what`s going to happen with the -- with the U.S. attorney Paul Fishman looking into this, you know, whether there will be indictments, you know, whether that comes down because then a lot of information that we don`t have I think becomes much more public, and these people who are not talking and people not talking might want to talk, like Bridget Ann Kelly, a name we haven`t used in awhile, you know, might give us a little better clue as to the why, and really how this whole operation, you know, came into being.

But I do think there`s a, you know, treasure trove of information we`ve yet to see, and all of it, you know, is increasingly disturbing. And I think we`re approaching the one-year anniversary. You know, it`s just next week from when those lanes close. So I think scrutiny is going to increase. And I suspect there will be more for us to find that will upset us.

O`DONNELL: And Brian, Chip Michaels apparently told the investigators that the plan was to close those lanes for a month.

MURPHY: That`s right. He did. He told the chief that. The chief told me that back in February. I think I may be one of the last people in the press that he spoke to. Because that was right around the time when everybody lawyered up. But that was the word passed along the Fort Lee that this was going to go on for a month. And so, the question we had back then was how did Chip Michaels know enough to say that at the time? How did anybody know enough when the story line has been that this was an extremely closely held. The sort of the details of these operations were extremely closely held among David Wildstein and Bridget Kelly and a very small handful of people. But clearly they were more involved and we`ll learn more.

O`DONNELL: And Brian, quickly before we go, the part where he`s saying "shut up," which mean what`s going on here has to be kept a secret, means that Chip Michaels knows there`s a reason why it has to be kept a secret. He knows more than just, you know, someone says we`ve got to do this to the lanes. He knows there`s some kind of motivation behind this that the illegitimate and must be kept secret.

MURPHY: Which is why I think it`s OK for us to read malicious intent into some of the emails that exchanged around that time by some of these other secondary characters. We can give them generous reading when they say they don`t know anything, that we can take them at their word or look at how they behaved and it suggests otherwise.

O`DONNELL: Right. Brian Murphy and Alfred P. Doblin, thank you both very much for joining me tonight.

MURPHY: Thank you, Lawrence.

DOBLIN: Thank you.

O`DONNELL: Coming up, what senator Elizabeth warren has to say to Eric Cantor about Eric Cantor`s new job on Wall Street. That`s in the rewrite.

And later, the good news. Two real hero police officers will join me. That`s coming up.

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O`DONNELL: I`ve been watching a lot of TV ads here in Boston for the New Hampshire Senate race, because when you run for Senate in New Hampshire, you have to campaign in Boston, not exactly Boston, but on Boston media. You have to do interviews on Boston TV, you have to buy ads on Boston TV and Boston radio, because southern New Hampshire voters watch an awful lot of Boston TV stations and they listen to Boston radio stations.

And Scott Brown is very comfortable campaigning for Senate in New Hampshire through the Boston media because that`s how he campaigned for a Massachusetts Senate seat through the Boston media. Last week, Scott Brown told friendly Boston radio host Howie Carr that voter fraud was perfectly OK with him. Out of state voters coming to New Hampshire to vote for him was OK. Listen to this.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Ask Scott why people should vote for him after the other, instead of the other group candidates, that from Vermont actually.

BROWN: Well, they can come over and do same-day registration and say they want to -- say they want to come down and vote. So if they feel compelled to do so, some on down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Or is 8-6-0- Connecticut? That may be Connecticut, I`m not sure. I get confused.

BROWN: Yes. Well, whatever it is, they can come up.

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O`DONNELL: A little joking about voter fraud, only I don`t know if Scott Brown was joking. 860 is actually a Connecticut area code. Brown moved to New Hampshire in 2013 and registered as a voter there in December. The last time Scott Brown made news on the campaign trail, he criticized senator Shaheen for raise the debt ceiling, even though he too had voted to raise the debt ceiling. And today at a town hall, Scott Brown told the voters of New Hampshire that he -- what he would do to bring jobs to his new state.

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BROWN: When folks say what are you going to do to bring jobs, my job is to make sure that the government stays out of your way so you can grow and expand.

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O`DONNELL: Up next in the rewrite, the senior senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren versus Eric Cantor.

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JON STEWART, COMEDIAN: So don`t begrudge Cantor that $3.5 million. If anything, that is not a salary for his new job. It is payment for services already rendered.

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O`DONNELL: Eric Cantor rewrites an electoral defeat into a $3.5 million win. $3.5 million is the minimum amount that Eric Cantor will be paid in his first year as an investment banker. Investment banking is, of course, not banks as we consumers know it. There are no drive-through ATMs involved, no cash machines of any kind, and nothing that we would really recognize as banking. It`s really just deal making, business deal making, massaging money into more money and taking home huge amounts in the process. And by huge, I don`t mean Eric Cantor`s starting salary of $3.5 million. I mean the hundreds of millions that far less famous investment bankers routinely take home every year for doing nothing particularly difficult or valuable.

The two best ways to get into investment banking are going to fancy college or business schools, with a very old name or becoming a powerful member of Congress. Eric Cantor had absolutely no intention of becoming an investment banker, until this happened.

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ERIC CANTOR (R-VA), FORMER HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER: I know there`s a lot of long faces here tonight, and it`s disappointing, sure. But I believe in this country. I believe there`s opportunity around the next corner for all of us.

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O`DONNELL: Well, there was opportunity around the next corner for Eric Cantor. That was Eric Cantor three months ago losing in a Republican primary in Virginia. Congressman Cantor had seven months left to serve in the House of Representatives before a new member would be sworn into his seat. But Eric Cantor couldn`t wait to get out of Congress and Elizabeth Warren thinks she knows why. Here`s what she told Katie Couric of Yahoo! News.

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KATIE COURIC, YAHOO! NEWS: Let me ask you about former house majority leader Eric Cantor`s new job. He just landed a multimillion dollar job at an investment bank. I saw you shake your head as soon as I mentioned this.

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D), MASSACHUSETTS: You know, how wrong can this be? That basically what`s happening here is that people work in Washington and, man, they hit that revolving door with the speed that would blind you, and head straight out into the industry. Not because they bring great expertise and insight, but because they`re selling access back into their former colleagues who are still writing policy, who are still making laws.

I just think this is fundamentally the wrong approach, and I think it`s -- it worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job. Yes, I`m working now, you know, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that`s where I`m headed. That ultimately infects whatever it is that they`re doing. And I just think this is wrong, just wrong.

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O`DONNELL: Never mind that Eric Cantor ran for a two-year term when Virginia`s 7th district re-elected him to Congress in 2012. Why should Eric Cantor hang out in Congress making $174,000 a year? That`s what his paycheck was busted down to when he lost his leadership position, $174,000 a year when he could immediately hang his congressional mementos in his congressional banking office and immediately start making $3.5 million a year? Who would do that? Who would hang out for that low pay? Why hang in there and represent the people of the 7th district for another five months? Just because he said he would when he ran for that office?

If Eric Cantor had stayed in office until the end of his term, he would have been paid an additional $72,500 for those last five months. Instead, he will make $1,458,333 by running out of the door as fast as he can.

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CANTOR: Serving as the 7th district congressman and then having the privilege to be majority leader has been one of the highest honors of my life.

I`m honored that I`ve had the privilege to serve and represent the people of Virginia`s 7th district.

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O`DONNELL: I`m sure Eric Cantor meant it every time he said it, that representing the people of the 7th district was one of the highest honors of his life. But for Eric Cantor and many other members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans before him, honor has a price.

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O`DONNELL: Tonight, I have a very special police story for you. This is a story of good cop, good cop, and it`s next.

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O`DONNELL: And now for the good news. In April, two Seattle police officers responded for the second time in a week to a minor disturbance at a home where two young sisters lived with their grandparents. The police officers noticed that the only bed was in the grand parent`s bedroom and in the girl`s bedroom, there was just a single blanket on a dirty floor. The girls were 6-years-old and 12-years-old. The officers could see that the grandparents cared about the children but they simply could not provide more.

We left the house wishing we could do more for them beyond out regular police duties said Office Jeremy Wade.

Joining me now to tell us what they decided to do are Seattle police officers Jeremy Wade and Ryan Gallagher.

Officer Gallagher, you left that house, you were driving down the street and started talking to each other about it. What did you decide to do?

OFC. RYAN GALLAGHER, FOUNDER, BEDS FOR KIDS: Once we got to the end of the block, we just -- we knew we had to do something. We talked about it to each other and said, are there any programs or anything like that, that we can think of? And there just wasn`t anything that could give -- fill their immediate needs. So we just took it to the next step after that.

O`DONNELL: And Officer Wade, what was the next step?

OFC. JEREMY WADE, FOUNDER, BEDS FOR KIDS: Yes, we just got some of our own money together. We went to IKEA and bought the two girls brand new twin beds and bedding for them. And a couple days later, on our normal shift, stopped at the house and asked if they could set up these beds in the home for the girls. They were beyond excited and thrilled to have the beds.

O`DONNELL: And Officer Ryan, you realized that you guys were out there, you have seen things like this before and you know there`s a bigger need than that. And so after doing that, for those two girls, you decided to take this to another level. What are you doing with this now?

GALLAGHER: Yes, we talked about it to each other. And we talked to the Seattle police foundation and we talked to our chain of command. And we just said hey, is there any way that we can make this bigger, because there`s a greater need and we see this as police officers every day. We go to houses where, you know, you may not see something, but in our houses we may take for granted, like a bed. And so, you know, we teamed up with IKEA and got the word out to the Seattle police foundation and got a website going and put it on facebook and everything, social media and we got a number of requests for beds. And this Saturday, we`re going to be filling about 50 of those orders, 50 beds for 50 different kids in the Seattle area.

O`DONNELL: Yes, this is a fantastic program. What I love about it is, you just -- Officer Wade, you just went into room and you saw a desperate need there, and you realized there was actually something you could do something about. A lot of something you see on the street you can`t do anything about, but you realized you could do something here.

WADE: Yes, you know, it was something that hit home. You know, we`re both fathers, kids, young kids at home as well. And just kind a put our feet in their shoes. I couldn`t imagine, you know, my kids sleeping on the floor. Just really want to do something for them. And you know, we know it is a little above and beyond we really do in responding to 911 calls. But we just felt the connection there and wanted to do something more.

O`DONNELL: Listen, I just cannot congratulate you or praise you highly enough for what you`ve done. Really, to be able to do the jobs you do and have to steel yourself against a lot of the things you see on a daily basis, but to open in that moment of need, and respond to it, I`m just really thrilled you`ve been able to do that. We`re going to link our website to the website where donations can be made, and I`m going to be making a donation tonight. Officers Ryan Gallagher and Jeremy Wade of the Seattle Police Department. You make your department proud. Thank you very, very much for joining us tonight.

WADE: Thank you, sir.

GALLAGHER: Thanks for having us.

O`DONNELL: Thank you. Chris Hayes is up next.

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